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Hello fellow LJ’s,
i just wanted to share this amazing find with ya’ll since we all (more or less) share the same love of wood. A rancher pushed over this enormous bois d’arc tree to make way for a fence (of all things) anyway he gave a buddy and me free range to cut as much of it as we wanted to. I was overjoyed and so far this is all I’ve gotten to the sawmill but there is much more to come. one of the huge benefits to living in deep east Texas is there are sawmills just about around every corner. so i ended up getting about 150 bd ft of beautiful osage orange, and i gotta tell ya, this stuff is amazing. and amazingly hard, amazingly yellow (the photos do...